The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety. Until one thing comes out from theconnection… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Imposing a $10,000 cap on SALT deductions has nothing to do with thoughtful tax policy. It's simply an attack on New Jersey… — Mikie Sherrill Copy Share Image
Gradually, everything that happens in the world is coming to be of interest everywhere in the world, and, gradually, thoughtful men and… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
My father is very Jean Valjean. He's what I would call a great example of a religious person. He is a deeply… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
I snuck a look to see how Eric was taking this, and he was staring at me the same way the Monroe… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We must protect the very things that make America so special - most certainly including our civil liberties. But we cannot do… — Mike Pompeo Copy Share Image
Tom Paine was a great American visionary. His book, Common Sense, sold a couple of hundred thousand copies in a population of… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
“Some people will love my books, some people will hate them, and others will regard them with odd curiosity. Who do I… — Ella Dominguez Copy Share Image
...the thoughtful excitement of lonely rambles, of gardening, and of other like occupations, where the mind has leisure to must during the… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
Scientists are skeptics. It's unfortunate that the word 'skeptic' has taken on other connotations in the culture involving nihilism and cynicism. Really,… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
David Corbett has combined his unique talents as a gifted writer and an extraordinary teacher to create a superb resource on character… — Sheldon Siegel Copy Share Image
When somebody is enthusiastic about a job opportunity - but gives off the feeling that this is not the only one they… — Peter Guber Copy Share Image
The best opportunities are often ones where you're being contrarian. That doesn't mean being contrarian for contrarian's sake, but it means you're… — David Sze Copy Share Image
Undermining life-affirming social solidarities and any viable notion of the public good, right-wing politicians trade in forms of idiocy and superstition that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I think it is appropriate when you look at the test that you have to meet to be commander-in-chief for Americans to… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I feel funny saying this, I'm not really a shoe shopper. I'm not going to go out and buy hundreds of pairs… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
There's certainly satire written about techies, but it's so snarky and snide and doesn't treat him as a whole person. The people… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
I am my father's only child. The world knows a two-dimensional Cary Grant. As charming a star and as remarkable a gentleman… — Jennifer Grant Copy Share Image
I owe thanks to a thoughtful, sophisticated readership hungry for challenging subject matter, for honest portrayals of parenthood, and for fiction whose… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Ive taken Saturdays to be the day I pull back completely. I do things that are more creative, and Ive actually found… — Padmasree Warrior Copy Share Image
“The greatest stories appeal to our deepest selves, the parts of us snobbery can’t reach, the parts that connect the child to… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent,… — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
When I started writing this blog more than years ago, it was in response to traditional media's habit of twisting interviews to… — Mark Cuban Copy Share Image
I had to be frugal, thoughtful, resourceful. I didn't have anyone to tell me, 'You can't.' When you're young, you think you… — Sandra Lee Copy Share Image
I found myself declaiming, full flower, for an hour on the "utmost importance and urgency" of Blogging, telling him in no uncertain… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I don't want to seem ungrateful when you have given me this thoughtful, homemade and totally terrifying gift," Jamie told him. "But… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
My focus is always on the day. What I've done behind me, I try to have respect for it, and keep an… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once we affirm the goal of trying to make sure that you don't have jihadis infiltrating terrorist flows, we need to make… — Benjamin E. Sasse Copy Share Image
In this respect fundamentalism has demonic traits. It destroys the humble honesty of the search for truth, it splits the conscience of… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
There's no set like a Ryan Murphy set, mainly because it feels like he's built an entire world. He's so thoughtful and… — Skyler Samuels Copy Share Image
I've developed some deep relationships over the past couple of years blogging and I realize that those relationships manifest themselves in the… — Jason Calacanis Copy Share Image
When someone important to you, someone that's played a big role in your life, when they're gone... When you write about them… — Mark Kozelek Copy Share Image
When the whole world is writing letters, it's easy to lap into the quiet within, tell the story of an hour, keep… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
The way that you eliminate bad and ugly is either through activism and policy making that never tolerates evil -- instead of… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
My experience as a Jewish American has often been as a spectator of one-sided conversations, or more like monologues, about Israel, Jewish… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
The evidence seems clear that those business which actively serve their many constitutencies in creative, morally thoughtful ways also, over the long… — Norman Lear Copy Share Image